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Hope it was a good one, fellow Boricua

Catching some friends' shows in NYC on Thursday night, heading down to Long Beach Island NJ for the day on Friday, 2 shows on Saturday (one in Newark, one in NYC), then seeing another friend's show after that, chill on Sunday day and show Sunday night.

Happy 4th everyone ... and Happy Canada Day today to our friends up North!

Sweet! Congrats and definitely keep us posted! Would love to come by.

rem 1985 radio city music hall nyc (mumblin' mike w/long hair)

u2 1982 the ritz nyc (st. paddy's day)

Can't bear tweaking my list anymore, so I've sent it on in... I'm sure it'll be completely different come September:

Mart's Top 20 LPs, Summer 2008

1. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

2. Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 - Sam Cooke

3. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

4. Curtis Mayfield's Chicago Soul - Various

5. Revolver - The Beatles

6. Night Beat - Sam Cooke

7. Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul: Complete & Unbelievable - Otis Redding

8. Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid - Klark Kent

9. Let the Good Times Roll - The Anthology 1938-1953 - Louis Jordan

10. Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

11. The Genius Hits The Road - Ray Charles

12. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

13. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

14. Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren

15. In Rainbows - Radiohead

16. Ella & Louis - Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong

17. Regatta de Blanc - The Police

18. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

19. Being There - Wilco

20. The White Album - The Beatles

I absolutely MUST make it to a Midnight Sun game before I die.

Aww man... we went to see him in Las Vegas the weekend my brother Socko and his fiancee Jennifer got married. We sat up front at one of those long tables against the stage. He was doing his thing and we were in stiches. He said something that wasn't necessarily funny, but, having the giggles at that point, my brother and my wife Patti both laughed out loud. He stopped, walked over, looked at them, and said, "What the fuck are you two laughing at?" I think he was serious.

RIP, another Native New Yorker moves on.

It was a pretty moving service that they aired yesterday... Mike Barnacle had me laughing and in tears at the same time. When Springsteen played "Thunder Road," I choked up completely. Russert seemed such a regular guy; yesterday's service proved it. It was like sending off a friend.

Have a fantastic birthday filled with quality cinema, Eric!

tater pie - bob wills

Way to go, Sarah... you sound great! Keep it up and have lots and lots of fun doing so!!!

I would hope so. They're essentially mix tapes/discs.

There are some artists whose heyday pre-date the album era (Louis Jordan immediately comes to mind)... wouldn't be fair to exclude them simply because the medium didn't exist.

Going with Say-Hey on that one. Mantle was brilliant, but I'm pretty confident that if you ask their peers, or folks who saw them play, nearly all of them would take Mays over Mantle. The elder statesmen in my family (even the Yankee fans) always ranked those legendary mid-1950s NY centerfielders in this order: Mays - Mantle - Snider. I wish they were still around to chat about it more... my grandfather adored Mays & Clemente.

Thanks Maudie! Thinking about this will beat trying to find all 50 state license plates on the next long road trip.

The pre-steroids Bonds was a magnificent player, and certainly one of the greatest of all-time had he stopped playing at the point that he started taking steroids... shame he completely tainted his legacy by choosing to follow in McGwire/Sosa's footsteps. Bonds was always a marvelously consistent producer, and it's easy to forget how solid his defense once was.

That said, he never seemed to take my breath away the way that Junior did, be it on defense or offense.

Before they fire up the cremation kiln, the last soundwaves I want skipping over my skin are those of "Do-Do Do Bah-Ah" by Bert Keyes, with "Move on Up" by Curtis Mayfield and "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited just before that.

First concert I ever bought a ticket for was Rush @ MSG in 1981... they opened with "Spirit of Radio", and changed one of the lines in the song to be "one likes to believe in the freedom of baseball." Don't know if they still do that, but this pre-teen was totally psyched to know that his then-favorite band shared the love for his favorite sport.

Very cool to hear that Geddy donated those signed balls so that visitors to the Museum can enjoy them.

When I saw him playing in the early '90s, I considered him to be probably the great player I'll ever see in my lifetime. I think ARod has overtaken that, but Junior in those days was jaw-dropping good... and the joy with which he played took it up a notch for me. I don't agree with over-rated, but I can see why some might think he might be.

My, how the time sure has flown... happy 21st, Rosie! Have a sambuca on me...

...and crank some Tina!!!!

Don't forget, in his first several years, Junior's defense was absolutely spectacular as well. If the injuries didn't start happening with such frequency, one could argue that we could have just been watching a chase for 800.

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that's why you're the bestest. Even if I only loved you a wee bit, i'd have uploaded it again... Here's the link with filenames truncated: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4xmwcf

Maudie, because I love you as much as I do, I will remove spaces in filenames and upload again.

Are you kiddin'??? When are you gonna be here? Maybe we can get pizza!